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Creamy cauliflower soup with pumpkin, cashew & tofu fritters

Incorporating more meat free meals is a simple way to look after both our health and our planet. It’s something that’s always in the back of my mind when it comes to meal planning and I’ve been thinking of new ideas that are filling and tasty. Creamy cauliflower garlic soup and pumpkin cashew fritters are two success stories in my kitchen experiments and they both get a boost of plant based protein from Bean Supreme Soft Tofu.

The new Bean Supreme Soft Tofu is made from whole soy beans (no GMO soy!) and has a higher water content than their other tofu, hence it’s softer texture. It is very lightly flavoured so it makes a versatile ingredient to add to dishes, both sweet and savoury.

Soft tofu has a soft, creamy texture and is a source of protein, fibre and also provides calcium so it makes a good base for creating meals.

I used the Bean Supreme Soft Tofu in my creamy cauliflower and garlic soup to provide a creamy texture and to boost the protein content. It might sound a little weird, but it really works! The result is a nutritious plant based soup that has a great flavour, creamy texture and is filling too. I also created vegan pumpkin cashew fritters which also have a lovely texture and flavour, thanks to the cashews, turmeric and curry powder. These can be served alongside the soup or as a meal in themselves with a side of coleslaw.

Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Rinse the cauliflower, shake off excess water and cut into florets. Place the cauliflower and the cloves of garlic on a large baking tray, drizzle with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes.

While the cauliflower is roasting, soak the cashew nuts in boiling water and set aside.

Chop the onion in half, then into slices. Rinse and chop the leek into rounds. Place these in a large pot with ½ tablespoon olive oil. Stir over a medium heat for around 5 minutes. Add the vegetable stock and simmer gently.

Once finished roasting, squeeze the garlic from the outer shell and add the garlic flesh to the pot along with the cauliflower. Drain the cashews and add to the pot. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Take off the heat. Add the tofu and lemon juice. Blend until smooth – if you prefer your soup a little chunky, blend a little less. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Top with a swirl of pesto, herbs and cashew nuts.

Pumpkin, cashew and tofu fritters

These delicious fritters are full of flavour and nutrition. Serve as a side dish with the soup, or they make a yummy dish in themselves, served alongside brown rice and vegetables.

Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic. Place in a medium sized mixing bowl along with the pumpkin, tofu, coconut flour, spices and chia seeds. Mix well.

Place cashew nuts in blender or food processor. Pulse until the nuts are very finely chopped – almost like the texture of almond meal, but slightly chunkier. Add the nut mixture to the bowl and mix well to combine.

Place the sesame seeds on a plate. With clean hands, roll the mixture into small balls. Coat in sesame seeds and place on an empty plate. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a fry pan over a medium heat. Add the fritters and pan fry until golden brown all over.

*I used coconut flour as it is quite absorbent, but feel free to use another type – just add a little more if the mixture feels a bit wet.

GIVE AWAY!!

And thanks to Bean Supreme, for some more healthy recipe inspiration I’ve got Revive Cookbooks 4 & 5 to giveaway. Revive is a popular healthy cafe in Auckland serving up delicious plant based recipes.

To be in the draw, simply comment below with why you’d like to win and hit the facebook ‘like’ button below. Prize will be drawn on Monday 11 July and the winner will be announced on this post and notified by email. Open to NZ residents only sorry.

I really would love these recipe books. I’ve been meaning to purchase them. I’ve started incorporating a vegetarian meal weekly and these recipe books have so many great, tasty options to trick my not so keen partner

I would love to win because I’m trying to transition to a plant based diet at the moment and currently have 3 large blocks of tofu in the fridge that I would love some inspiration for. Love revive ????

Thanks for sharing these recipes. I will definitely be trying them. I currently have two of the Revive cookbooks out from the library as they are full of yummy healthy recipes and I love that I can also find the ingredients easily. Would love to win a copy of my own.

I’d like to win these books as i feel a bit of a failure as a Mum when it comes to the cooking department. My Mum was not into cooking and therefore never taught me. Dinners are always so uninspiring in our house, and i would love to show my children that food can be EXCITING 🙂

Would love to win this and have some more inspiration and great recipes to have my greens, whilst I love my veggies I generally just boil them and eat them and it would be wonderful to make something more culinary with them

Nom Nom, we love vegetarian food and have mostly been introduced to awesome ways with My Food Bag, the other night we had Tofu and Black Bean burgers, to be honest i was a tad scared but we LOVED them, i am finding vegetarian food more interesting than with meat!! Can’t wait to venture out on our own and your wonderful cookbooks would help us do this! Feel good getting more and more veggies in the system xx

I would love these recipe books. I partner doesn’t eat a lot of white meat and we both are wary of the effects red meat can generally have on our systems. Guidacne from these books to try some vegetarian recipes would be super helpful ????

I LOVE Jeremy’s recipes! His aioli single-handedly turned me into a salad person, and my kids love it too. He keeps everything simple and easy, whilst being super healthy and nourishing. I also love how the ingredients are easy to get and the recipes are aimed at kiwis. I haven’t been brave enough to try tofu yet, but I will give it a go with one of the Revive recipes. Our finances are low at the moment so I try to get his books on high rotate from the library, but as they are incredibly popular they can be hard to get. I would be over the moon to have 2 at home so I can continue to try each recipe and improve the health of my family 🙂

I have these books and use them all the time but would love to win them so I could give them to a special person who is working extremely hard to eat healthy and is grieving for her Mum who passed away recently.
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I have received his emails for years and would love to go to AKL one day to eat at his restaurant, in the meantime it would be wonderful to win a cookbook as I ty to include one vegetarian meal a week but do run out if ideas

I need to get some good ideas and recipes together, to make a healthier choice in my way of eating ways and also over winter to ensure I am eating well and not ruining all my hard work from the summer I also have borrowed a friend’s before and so easy to follow and use 🙂

I’ve just started my lifestyle change to be more proactive about nourishing my body from the inside out. Would be great to have some new recipes to enjoy along the journey and to share with my family and friends.

I’d love to win 1 of theses books,my Mother has a few and I adore them,I find myself borrowing them all the time.I have started experimenting with lots of different vegetarian meals for my family so would love to have one.

I have one Revive cookbook, have loved every recipe I have cooked from it and would be absolutely stoked to win one of the other books! I would like to eat more vegetarian meals and the recipes in these books are so tasty my husband might not miss the meat!

I would love to win because revive cafe is my favourite cafe and I go there every time I go up to Auckland! I would love to test out the recipes myself at home and enjoy lots of whole food healthy goodness!

I need Revive in my life to incorporate delicious vegetables into our life with 6 kids and a meat loving husband! At the moment, they believe veges are a side or add on, so id love to change this and make vegetables the feature of our meals!